library

“Shhhhhh!” For many of us who were born pre-decimalisation, this is an enduring memory of the libraries of our youth, along with those of stuffy buildings filled with dusty, weighty tomes that were seemingly irrelevant to our growing minds. It’s fair to say that the focus of libraries was to provide books, and the reason to use one was to get books. They weren’t necessarily welcoming because a book repository didn’t need to be.